Chris Bell

SI is out with its fourth "Year in Sports Media" (scroll about halfway down), a tradition that has coincided with my time on the sports media beat and thus has allowed me to steal ideas for my own year-end roundups.......

First of two parts A sexual-harassment complaint in Fruitland Park has turned into a criminal investigation, and all of it easily could have been prevented — if only elected officials had opened a can of courage and done their jobs. Lake County...

Universal Orlando marked the anniversary of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter with a confetti-streamers-butterbeer moment at 9:23 a.m. on Saturday — one year after it officially opened last spring at Islands of Adventure theme park.  Universal...

“Do y'all still believe?” Thomas Wynn's understated question to the audience was worth asking on Saturday night at BackBooth, where the Orlando singer-songwriter officially debuted the new edition of his band, the Believers. Messing with a...

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced its winners for 2010 at a ceremony at the Colony Theatre in Burbank on Monday evening. The awards, which recognize excellence in L.A. and Orange County theater, are voted on by theater critics......

Five years ago, in a hotel ballroom in suburban Baltimore, a group of future Lions gathered to have their pictures taken with a cardboard cutout of their future coach. On Thursday night, a third member of that recruiting class became......

Opium smuggling, gangsters, prostitution and corruption make Shanghai circa 1920 an irresistible vacation spot for the Grand Guignolers, L.A.'s faux '20s Parisian troupe inspired by the notorious French theater. Creator/director Debbie McMahon's highly...

Whatever you want to say about the Florida Music Festival, the FMF boys know how to put a party band on Wall Street Plaza for closing night: This year's festival headliner, percussion-propelled jam-band Rusted Root capped the 2010 edition with a rowdy,...

I was supposed to go out and hear some music tonight. I didn't know if it would be some clanging revelation, a sound I'd never heard before, or a blast from the past given new oomph by some young punks......

Alex Chilton performs at the SXSW festival in 2004. (Jack Plunkett, AP) Paul Westerberg and the Replacements spoke for countless artists and diehard fans when they wrote a song called "Alex Chilton" in 1987. "Children by the millions sing for......

If the Big Star show that became a tribute to the late Alex Chilton on Saturday in Austin had the weight and solemnity of church, the panel about the band and its lost leader offered the insight and revelation of......

Get the latest results for today's federal, state and county races. President 5852 of 6088 precincts reporting Barack Obama 49.9% 3,977,167 Mitt Romney 49.2% 3,924,092 Gary Johnson 0.5% 42,123 Jill Stein 0.1% 8,382 Roseanne Barr 0.1% 7,708...